Life Episode 4: Blorp

This second to last episode of Life, you will see some Blorp-tastic, sticky-eye-balled fish called “Mud Skippers”. They like to walk on land, breathe air, and shovel mud out of their houses with their moufs. They also make excellent mud wrestlers. Enjoy!

Oh, Mother Nature, you have produced some truly weird animals. My hat is off to you, Mother Nature. May you entertain us with the wild, weird creatures that roam the Earth. I’m utterly fascinated and repulsed and agog at these mudskippers.

@Lindsay: Teachers like that were my favourite when I was a young ‘un. Honestly. There’s nothing more a rebellious, uppity kid likes better than to go back to school with an encyclopedia tucked under my arm (though I’d have had at least one under each), just so I could say to the teacher, “YOU WERE WROOOOOOONG!”

Our school principal pretty became a friend of the family, eventually. It was easier.

Here’s David’s ‘skipper (dunno how much of the clip is the same, if any):

Hmmm, i loved the little guys. Also, i found them, gooey. Now, as a vegetarian i have no interest in fish as a food source, but, they made me think of a chocolate with rice crispies in it….not sure why…

Great footage. But Oprah has no business doing narration. I know she’s famous and all, and perhaps bringing the public’s interest to these topics, but there are tons of real VO artists out there who could do a better job supplying the narrative.

Thank goodness Discovery Communications is preventing this from playing in other countries. I’ve invested a lot of money in mudskippers and I’d be outraged if those durned foreigners got to see them frolicking about for free!

Oh! Memories! A few already brought up Ren & Stimpy, but I grew up the era of those awesome cartoons…Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead…I had stuffed animals of Ren, Stimpy, AND Muddy Mudskipper. If you squeezed the Ren & Stimpy dolls, they would fart, but if you squeezed Muddy, he would wheeze as his mouth opened.

sigourney weaver on planet earth last year sounded really good… almost like she could barely keep herself from laughing out loud (all those goofy birds of paradise) as opposed to oprah’s “it’s only mildly amusing” tone of voice… but as long as they had hired courtney b. vance to VO the promo’s, why not let him do the VO to the show? I could listen to him all day (laurence fishburne, james earl jones, do I sense a pattern emerging?)